Longing for You

I long for you to rescue the state of our Ummah, and revive the Holy Prophet’s Sunnah. To pour patience, love, compassion and guidance into our hearts, we’ve inflicted ourselves with so many diseases, growing faults.

Ya Imam, you are among us but I cannot see youIn today’s world, with you are but a fewHow I wish I was aware of your presenceI long to see you establish your essenceThe filth of my sins has veiled your face from my sightI wait to see the face of your Noor shining bright

I long for you to rescue the state of our UmmahAnd revive the Holy Prophet’s Sunnah

To pour patience, love, compassion and guidance into our heartsWe’ve inflicted ourselves with so many diseases, growing faultsHow ashamed you must be of our stateHow do we expect to meet you at this rate?

Ya Imam, please don’t neglect us the way we’ve doneMay we employ ourselves in your service instead of run

Ya Imam, we’re not worthy of asking for you to reappearFor Allah knows how we’ll behave when you’re here.

Today I write this letter and say I’m with you because I know I shouldBut the day you arrive will I commit the way I said I would?

There is so much dirt on my soulI long to once again become wholeSo much cleaning of my life to doI want to purify myself in a lasting state of WudhuYet the time ticks and my death nearsAnd I think about all my sins and my mind craws with fearsHas the time come too fast and my chance too late?I wish I could tell the Angel of death to wait…

May Allah help me provide strength to your armyYou are the Hujjat that is protected through Allah’s graceThe Imam of our time for every raceHow we live in oblivion and forget our responsibilityAnd commit sins with such audacity

Imam, help us gather ourselves and call you with sincerityWhy are we commercialized into society?I feel trapped and suffocated in corruptionHelp me escape this junctionYou are our oxygenMy hope to functionWe await the chance to be by your sideWhile in occultation you hide

We await for the oppression to endWhile you await us to change our ways and mend